What are the red flags?
Any one of these is a reason to slow down.
- Promises of rankings, traffic or timelines. No vendor controls how Google ranks a page.
- A huge catalog of domains priced like items on a shelf, which can mean sites built only to sell links, sometimes described as a private blog network.
- A refusal to show live examples before payment.
- Reports made of screenshots only, or reports that hide the live URL.
- Identical anchor text pushed on every order.
- Pressure to pay quickly, or terms that appear only after payment.
- No clear answer on what happens when a link disappears.
- Claims that an approach is risk-free. Link buying is never risk-free.
